Sadistic schedule? Tomsula not complaining about short-week trek to East Coast

Consider the 49ers’ plight this week: After playing Monday night, they will have to travel 3,000 miles to meet to the Steelers on Sunday, and the home team will have been off for nine days.

Oh, yeah, the game will start 10 a.m. on the West Coast.

Did 49ers head coach Jim Tomsula want to place a call to NFL schedule czar Howard Katz when he saw the scenario? Tomsula said he wasn’t about to boo-hoo.

“No, sir,” Tomsula said today. “We looked at that and planned accordingly. That’s just the facts of it. That’s where it is. That’s where we go. We’ve got a game Sunday in Pittsburgh. And we’re going to get on an airplane. We’re going to prepare this week, and we’re going to play.

“All we want to know is what the parameters are, OK? Here’s the parameters. Here’s the facts. And then let’s put a plan together to attack it. And go at it. That’s as deep as it gets with me.”

Tomsula’s approach differs from that of Jim Harbaugh in 2011, when the 49ers had to travel cross-country to meet the Ravens on Thanksgiving, four days after their previous game.

“I think that’s going to be very difficult for our team,” Harbaugh said before that game. “There’s no question that we drew the short end of the straw on this one.”

Inside linebacker Michael Wilhoite said Tomsula hasn’t made an issue of this week’s challenge.

“You’re not going to hear anybody complain,” Wilhoite said. “You’re not going to hear anybody give excuses before or after the game. We’re just going to take it like it is. We knew this going into it. They gave us the schedule months ago, so we knew it was a short week. I’m sure our coaches are prepared. I’m sure they’ll have us prepared. And we’ll go out there and play.”

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Running back Reggie Bush will have an MRI at Stanford today to determine the severity of the calf strain he sustained in the first quarter Monday.

Tomsula offered an optimistic report, noting Bush was walking without a limp after the game and this morning. Bush, of course, hopped off the field after he was injured on his second carry against the Vikings.

“He looked good,” Tomsula said. “… He looks fine.”

If Bush can’t play, the 49ers running backs will be Carlos Hyde, Jarryd Hayne and rookie Mike Davis, a fourth-round pick who was inactive Monday.